West Virginia University music faculty members Francesca Arnone, flute, and Christine Kefferstan, piano, will present a recital at 3 p.m., Sunday (Sept. 23), in the Bloch Learning and Performance Hall at the Creative Arts Center. The event is free and open to the public.

The first half of the program will includeSechs Lieder fr Flte und Klavierby Franz Schubert andSonata for Flute and Pianoby Srul Irving Glick.

The second half will featureSechs Stcke fr Flte und Klavierby Fikrtmirov andSonata for Flute and Piano, Op. 120by Edwin York Bowen.

This collection of pieces is one that features works not often heard today, but which we felt deserved attention,said Arnone, an assistant professor of flute.It was very interesting to pair two collections of wildly diverse �€~songswith two contrasting sonatas, and all from different parts of the world.

Arnone is a member of the Laureate Wind Quintet and director of the WVU Flute Choir. She earned flute performance degrees from Oberlin, the San Francisco Conservatory and the University of Miami. She served as Principal of the Boise Philharmonic for four seasons and as Piccolo of the Palm Beach Opera Orchestra since 1997.

Prior to this, she was Co-Principal and Piccolo of the Orquesta Sinfnica de la Universidad de Guanajuato in Mexico.

She has performed with the Florida Philharmonic, the Florida West Coast Symphony, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Missouri Chamber Orchestra and the Orquesta Sinfnica de Tenerife in Spain, among others. She has been both a flute and piccolo concerto soloist in the United States and Mexico.

Kefferstan, professor of piano, maintains an active performing career as soloist, chamber musician and accompanist.

She was recently featured as solo artist at the National Institute of Culture and History in Belize City, Belize; on the Stifel Fine Arts Series, Wheeling; the Silver Series, Plymouth, N.H.; and the Steinway Society Series in Pittsburgh.

A graduate of the College-Conservatory of Cincinnati, Kefferstan studied with Israeli pianist David Bar-Illan, and has had additional coaching with Russian pianists Sedmara Rutstein, Oberlin and Viachaslov Gabrielov.

As founding member of the Sarasvati Trio, her ensemble was featured on the Cincinnati Taft Chamber Series in April 2007.